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Mon, 12/12/2011 : Caltech/CEA-Leti Alliance Launches First Start-up

Analytical Pixels, is a new start-up company that emerged from a collaboration between Caltech’s Kavli Nanoscience Institute (KNI) and the Micro and Nanotechnologies Innovation Campus (Minatec).

Mon, 11/28/2011 : Scientists Develop Highly Efficient Method for Creating Fexible, Transparent Electrodes

Researchers at UCLA report in the journal ACS Nano that they have developed a unique method for producing new electrodes that are both flexible and highly conductive.

Mon, 11/28/2011 : Dramatic Diversity of Columbine Flowers Explained By a Simple Change in Cell Shape

New research at Harvard and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), helps to explain how columbines have achieved a rapid radiation of approximately 70 species, with flowers apparently tailored to the length of their pollinators' tongues.

Thu, 11/17/2011 : Light as a Feather, Stiffer Than a Board

Researchers develop world’s lightest solid material, approximately 100 times lighter than Styrofoam.

Tue, 11/01/2011 : Distinguished Young Scientists Selected to Participate in Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposia

One hundred twenty-two young scientists have been selected for the U.S. and Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia.

Tue, 11/01/2011 : Kavli Frontiers of Science begins New Symposia Series with Indonesia

The National Academy of Sciences' Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium program has entered into a new partnership with Indonesia.

Tue, 11/01/2011 : Star Gazing Balloon Mission Selected by NASA for Mission Study

Exciting news for the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, they will provide the key detector technology for GUSSTO's 4.7 THz Space camera.

Thu, 10/27/2011 : “Save the World Through Science & Engineering” Video Contest Opens

The USA Science & Engineering Festival is accepting submissions for the 2012 Kavli “Save the World Through Science & Engineering” Video Contest.

Tue, 10/18/2011 : Using New Technique, Scientists Uncover a Delicate Magnetic Balance for Superconductivity

Researchers created atomic-level disorder in order to probe the workings of heavy fermion compounds. Mohammad Hamidian discusses how this work, and a new tool created at Cornell, may help revolutionze computer technology.

Wed, 10/05/2011 : Caltech Team Uses Laser Light to Cool Object to Quantum Ground State

Researchers have managed to cool a miniature mechanical object to its lowest possible energy state using laser light. The achievement paves the way for the development of exquisitely sensitive detectors as well as for quantum experiments that scientists have long dreamed of conducting.